considering selling my clarke Mig welder and putting the cash towards a combined Tig/plasma

the chinese versions on ebay look a good buy but does anyone have experience of them 1st hand?.

cheers
Ray

TBH, if they're anything like their bikes, they won't be up to much for very long!

I'm a great believer in 'you gets what you pays for'

That's my input FWIW.

JB

It might snap in half like a cheap Chinese spanner

Its all very odd as they have and amazing industry, build some of the biggest most complicated structures in the world, their Olympics were beyond anything seen before plus they make most of the hi-tech electronic gadgets sold

so logically they should also make the best tools in the world but they still sell rubbish tools and deathtrap motorbikes what’s that all about?

[Edited on 9/12/08 by Mr Whippy]

My grandad was a very wise man... He always said 'Only a rich man can afford to buy cheaply'....

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Originally posted by twybrow
My grandad was a very wise man... He always said 'Only a rich man can afford to buy cheaply'....

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I said he was a wise man, not me.... I had never heard of him, but maybe he had!

I have a Rehman DC 200A Tig, and for less than £200 delivered, and still going a year on, I can't complain.
My SIP 150 mig cost me £225 10 years ago.

OK the Rehman is not industrial quality. Its cheap and seems to do the job OK.

If you want to TIG all day long every day then you need a Miller Dynasty or similar.
But then they are £3k ish.

Cheap ones are a risk, but I can have 15 of them for the price of a Miller. If I were running a welding business its no contest... Miller every time.

Its horses for courses, and I am pleased with mine.